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2010 | Color | 95 min

At age 58, García, a caretaker at a factory, is finally able to fulfill his wedding promise to his wife Amalia: to buy a home. But the old, run-down country house is not at all what his wife has dreamed of all these years. García thinks he will finally harvest the fruit of years of work, but his life takes an unexpected turn when he arrives from the factory to find Amalia has disappeared.

 


Country: Colombia
Direction: Rugeles; José Luis
Script: Vivanco; Diego
Production: Durán; Federico
Photography: Iván Castaño; Sergio
Sound: Torres; Isabel
Music: Raele; Luca, Tagliari; Mauricio
Cast:Rosa De Francisco; Margarita, Alcázar; Damián, Restrepo; Fabio
Participation year at FICM: 2010

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